Monday, May 11, 2020

32 toward the Omer

netzach shebhod

In high school I received an essay back where I’d written about not knowing what to write about and the teacher gave me an A for mechanics and a C for content

with a comment “do you know how many times I’ve read an essay about this?” and this teacher was great and momentous and also I wish I had known how to say

you’ve been teaching high school English since my mother went to this high school—but this is my first time here—what you perceive as common, cliché, is for me direly particular

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